walnut
\wɔːl.ˌnʌt\
The verdict
“walnut” is uncommon French (frequency #94,391 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,391
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-walnut · walnut · French
walnut · rank #94,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vénérienne
Nearest frequency peer: vénérienne (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « walnut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vult
vult
5,615 corpus weight
- vénéneuses
vénéneuses
5,613 corpus weight
- vénérienne
vénérienne
5,612 corpus weight
- walnut
walnut
5,610 corpus weight
- wendigo
wendigo
5,606 corpus weight
- Wikisource
Wikisource
5,605 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « walnut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | walnut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɔːl.ˌnʌt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « walnut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
walnut is uncommon French at frequency #94,391 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wɔːl.ˌnʌt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for walnut in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is walnut, spelled W-A-L-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1Noix.
- 2Noyer.
- 3Bois du noyer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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